Very much this.

The whole cutting sigils into your skill and shedding blood into a "holy vessel" might have medical implications though.

In general, the texts don't actually encourage trying it or tell you you would be a great cult leader.

Now we rent machines we will never own and pay for other people to poke the servers replacing disks and stuff...

I have to wonder, why would somebody have to drive to New Jersey to reset a server? Haven't they ever heard of remote management?

That's because there have been multiple incidents in recent days. No doubt, the first of many before anyone learns their lesson.

As Slayer points out, these are EXACTLY the people AI and vibe coding is advertised to. The people who know better are exactly the people that sort of person would like to stop paying and replace with the AI. These are exactly the people who would like to have an AI drive a truck loaded with explosives on a public highway so they don't have to pay a driver with a CDL.

It's a shame that honestly the best advice is to protect things you buy from a corporate drive-by.

That would be corporate America working hard to bring us the worst downsides of Soviet Communism, but none of the (granted, limited) upside.

But they didn't do that. The devices had offline functionality. Then the raging asshole manufacturer sent an update that chained them to the mothership.

In a sane world, that update would be a criminal act and swiftly punished along with a court order to back out the change and never do it again.

I'll grant that public school isn't doing great in the U.S., but private school has it's own share of problems in the U.S.

I would argue that healthcare would be a good candidate for a public option. Many factors confound market economics in health care.

But in addition, we really need to bring worker's rights into the 21st century.

I was responding to a post claiming it can't work because of behavior. It makes sense to address the argument given rather than something else.

Or, it means that well rested and happier workers are able to be more productive in 4 days than workers who are drag-ass tired and grumpy can be in 5 days.

Firing some workers will just make the rest of the drag-ass workers slower and grumpier.

And yet we TRY to stop murder with laws. Anger is a fundamental human emotion, and it naturally leads to violence and then murder. Yet for some reason we feel we should have laws against it...

If you were to advocate that we remove laws against murder, battery, etc I would at least grant you that your position is consistent, but I would not join you in advocacy.

It could be argued that our attempts to ban murder have failed, since murder still happens. It could also be argued that we can sure cut down on murder with laws even if we can't fully abolish it.

Perhaps we should now work on economic exploitation. Or we can lynch the bosses and landlords. Personally, I'll advocate for the first option.

Side note, I do not believe a purist version of Communism is likely to work, mostly because we as a people just aren't that good at organizing and planning. But I do believe we can move closer to it in some form for the benefit of everyone.

Smoking had a masking effect. In the past, if a person diagnosed with lung cancer ever so much as looked at a cigarette, that was the go-to for blame.

Now that fewer people have ever smoked, they still get the lung cancer, only now there's nothing to blame it on.

That's not to say that smoking doesn't increase the risk, just that that increase was never as great as it was made out to be.

Every day ruzzian drones are used to murder civilians, including 1 year old children, not just fight against military targets, this is called 'safari'. If these creatures are not stopped in Ukraine, they will be targeting YOUR civilians next.